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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.&#8221; &#8211; Martin Luther King, Jr. This is the quote that inspired the title for my book, The Weight of Silence. To stay silent, to say nothing in the face of injustice or suffering, to turn the other way, is to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miracles in the Making</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They love with their entire beings. They have so little, yet give everything they have. They ask nothing else from us other than to be there. I cannot say that for very many people in this world. Here at the holidays, miracles are often spoken of. With all the suffering and pain and hate in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Story of Santosh</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many of you who have followed my trips to India throughout the years and/or read my book, know about Santosh. The first child I sponsored at the orphanage, who I first met on my initial trip there in March 2005. Then 11-years-old, I thought Santosh was too shy of my attention, and that I would have little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Return to India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was planned all year, and now I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s over. I just returned from my 8th trip to visit my family in India. I have been planning this trip since January of this year. Now that I&#8217;m back home, it&#8217;s hard to believe the time — so long anticipated — has come and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>You can be part of changing a child&#8217;s future!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Make a donation to the kids! In one week, I am leaving for my 8th trip to the Servants of India Society Orphanage in Odisha, India, where I&#8217;ve been going and helping to support with a small group of volunteers for 10 years now. Right now we are just shy of $5,000 in donation to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>For Mother&#8217;s Day, Give to Children who Don&#8217;t Have One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 17:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The day that we honor mothers is coming up this weekend. But what about the millions of children who don&#8217;t have a mother? Who maybe never had one? I have spent much of the past decade of my life traveling back and forth to India (as well as a few other places) to visit and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Return Trip to India Booked!</title>
		<link>https://weightofsilence.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/return-trip-to-india-booked/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a thrilling week &#8211; I&#8217;ve finally booked my next trip to India! Tickets are confirmed for November &#8211; I will be arriving on November 1, and staying until December 6. And not only me, but the best of the group is reuniting. My mother, Sandy, and two of my best friends, Jody and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Making the Holidays Happy for Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we become immersed in the winter holiday season, my thoughts always jump across the ocean to my kids in India. It was just a year ago, November 2012, when I was there with them. It seems a lifetime ago, and so far away. I wish I could visit them many times a year; I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Mothers, and Being a Mom for Kids Who Don&#8217;t Have One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am so lucky. In no way more or less deserving than anyone else, I won the lottery of birth by being born into a family who loved and wanted me — and even more, who had the ability to take care of me. While we never really had a lot of money growing up, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Roll out the magic carpet: How to travel in India and other life lessons from Mariellen Ward</title>
		<link>https://weightofsilence.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/roll-out-the-magic-carpet-how-to-travel-in-india-and-other-life-lessons-from-mariellen-ward/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shelley Seale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who loves India as much as I do; in fact, it was this mutual obsession with the country that drew us together as virtual friends, several years ago when I began reading her beautiful blog, Breathe Dream Go. After becoming good friends in the online world, as well as writing colleagues [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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